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The unit is an air conditioner, but it is abbreviated as a/c. Why?

Musk is a liar and a bastard, what a surprise.

There are bits I missed. Trump legitimizing Kim as a tinpot dictator and making other tiny dictators realise the way to be taken seriously is to develop nuclear weapons.

Also Trump trashing the deal that stopped Iran developing nukes, like a genius.

Also the pro-life activists living up to their ideal by firebombing clinics and outright murder.

Wowzers Bumber, how much Kool-Aid have you drank?

The first link is an advert for a book.

The laptop being verified as Hunter’s laptop /=/ the (2 out of 128,000!) emails saying what they say they do.

BLM rioters were not instructed by the Democratic president to storm the capitol, like Trump did when he got upset over losing a democratic vote.

An FBI sting does not a federal conspiracy make, Jesus why does that need to be spelled out?

Republican parents where using violence and intimidation tactics to force administrators and school boards who disagreed with them to quit, in much the same way that they used them to force election officials from their positions after Trump saying the election was rigged. Still waiting for that evidence three years hence.

Nancy Pelosi asks a question, doesn’t actually tell people to go out and commit violence like the orange buffoon.

Louis Farrakhan isn’t a democratic politician.

Republicans also said make mandates were unnecessary for an airborne virus that was putting severe pressure on health services across the world, the effects of which are still felt, and pushed conspiracy theories that a billionaire philanthropist was putting microchips in all the vaccines.

Tell me when a democratic president encouraged their supporters to March in the capitol because they were butthurt they lost an election and refused to sign off on sending people in to deal with it for hours?

Harris and Biden being cautious over vaccines approved by a man who suggest sunlight and bleach should be investigated as means of dealing with the virus, and constantly failed against expert advice during the pandemic is… I mean common sense doesn’t cover it really.

Right. Burisma being corrupt has… what to do with Joe Biden? I mean we’re back to the laptop here. Hunter getting a job because he happens to have the family name “Biden” doesn’t mean Joe Biden is corrupt. Unless of course your argument is that Europe, the IMF, and anti-corruption NGOs in Ukraine were also in on trying to keep Hunter away from prosecution?

I mean, just looking at the Matt Gaetz wikipedia page…

On April 9, 2021, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Gaetz "may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift".[282] The committee deferred its investigation at the request of the Justice Department, but resumed it in June 2023.[283]

Sounds like a saint.

Tom Tuberville, the Republican refusing to confirm hundreds of appointments to mikitary leadership positions over a policy they have of paying for travel to get abortions, until very recently said that white nationalists weren’t racists, but just American. It also took

In short, yeah, Democrats are idiots, they’re human. Most assuredly the least bad option of the two choices available though.

I don’t get this “left-wing media” thing. What is it you are thinking/meaning when you say that? Is it also particular media outlets you mean?

You can PM a response if you want since I’m not interested in the dog-piling that tends to happen round here, just genuinely curious on your perspective.

Quote from: hector13 on July 11, 2023, 02:34:21 pm

As I say, the UK regulator has already said no. If that isn’t overturned or reviewed, the merger can’t happen.

Is it actually a "can't happen" or more a "well, they can't operate in the UK" thing? Because I could see them going "lol, who gives a damn about the UK market" at this point, heh. If you got the US and EU markets you can probably pretty safely tell the UK to get stuffed.

... anyway, if it does go through I don't expect it to make either of them worse, and might even make actiblizz somewhat less terrible to its workforce, but I wouldn't have high expectations. "Not worse" does not necessarily entail "better", ha.

According to the Beeb, it needs to be approved in all three to go through, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the scenario you present happens if the FTC are forced to approve it.

Microsoft looks like it has the green light to buy Activision now.

I don't understand why the media thinks it's about Call of Duty; It's not about Call of Duty!

If people don't understand how what Microsoft did to Minecraft, and is doing to Bethesda properties, isn't bad... I guess they deserve what they get.

Note: I don't dispute that Microsoft has added features to Minecraft.  But they also made it more difficult to use, it now requires a Microsoft account, and cross-platform play is tedious, especially when trying to play with non-Microsoft properties, among other things. Their support is also terrible; we tried to contact them regarding family accounts or something related to Minecraft, and they never responded.

Not yet, they need approval from UK, US, and EU regulators for the deal. The UK regulator has said no, and Microsoft are appealing, and the FTC are challenging it through administrative courts as well as this federal judge thing too.

Mm. Hunter is an addict who has made some questionable decisions, Trump gave his children positions in his cabinet and election campaign, and encouraged the aforementioned scheme to get dirt on Clinton that turned out to be nothing.